Completed genetic testing would determine whether a patient had Lynch syndrome (LS), a hereditary marker for a higher-than-average predisposition for developing colorectal cancer as well as other ...

Over a five-year study period, 210 of 258 newly diagnosed patients under age 50 who underwent colorectal cancer surgery had the MSI testing. Of those, 13 percent had MSI-H tumors. Overall, 88 ...

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Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2023;11: doi: 10.1136/jitc-2023-SITC2023.1526 Ends About Lynch Syndrome ...

This incidence of Lynch syndrome in endometrial cancer is similar to that already reported in patients with colon cancer by the same team of researchers. That study, published last year in the New ...

Developing new resources to improve care for families who face difficult genetic testing decisions Lynch syndrome is one of the leading causes of hereditary cancers (e.g., colorectal and endometrial ...

The association between Lynch syndrome and breast cancer risk has been controversial. A retrospective analysis of 272 patients with Lynch syndrome revealed that 13 individuals (5%) developed a primary ...